“I didn’t want to do it”, Donald Trump denies having imposed himself in Mom, I missed the plane again

2023-12-29 18:39:31

By Simon Pierre

Published 5 hours ago, Updated 5 hours ago

During the first screening of the film, “people applauded when Trump appeared on the screen,” assures Chris Colombus. TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

Director Chris Colombus has claimed for several years that the former President of the United States would have insisted on making a brief appearance in the famous Christmas comedy. What the person concerned denies on his social network.

In the Chris Columbus film, Mom, I missed the plane again first broadcast on the big screen on October 16, 1992, the scene between Macaulay Culkin and the 45th President of the United States will remain one of the most cult of this Christmas comedy.

In the second part of the McCallister family’s Christmas adventures, little Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin, reserves a room at the Plaza Hotel in New York using his father’s credit card that he had borrowed to buy Battery. It is in the lobby of the palace that the hero meets Donald Trump and asks him where the lobby is.

During an interview given in 2020 to Business Insider , director Chris Columbus claimed that they paid a filming fee at the Plaza Hotel, but that Donald Trump, who owned it at the time, insisted that he make a cameo. According to the director, Trump told him during the filming of the film: “You can only use the Plaza if I’m in the movie.”

On Wednesday, December 27, Trump reacted to these revelations, a little more than 30 years after the film’s release. “Director Chris Columbus and others were begging me to make an appearance in Home Alone 2 (Mom, I missed the plane again). They praised the Plaza Hotel in New York , which I owned at the time. I was very busy and didn’t want to do it. They were very nice, but above all persistent. I accepted, and the rest is history!” Regarding the director’s claims? “Nothing could be further from the truth” he added on Truth.

This little apparition took off like a rocket

Donald Trump

Still in his interview with Business Insiderthe filmmaker admitted that this scene had contributed to the success of this feature film. “When we first showed the film, a strange thing happened: people applauded when Trump appeared on the screen. So I said to my chief editor: “Leave him in the film. It’s a good moment for the public.” And it is not the American billionaire who will say the opposite: “That little cameo took off like a rocket and the film was a big success, and still is, especially in the run-up to Christmas. People call me every time it’s on.”

“If they felt intimidated or didn’t want me, why did they put me there and keep me there for over 30 years? Because I was, and still am, a great argument for the film. That’s why “, concluded the former American president.